10 Wrestling Storylines That Vanished Without A Trace
The words "lock box" haunt too many WWE fans considering it was only ever said once.
Wrestling is a giant melting pot of basically everything you can think of. It's drama. It's athleticism. It's fighting... except it's not... except when it is.
It's also, unlike the vast majority of television programming, never-ending. Week in and week out the top promotions in the world put together show after show to entertain their fans, doing their best to move from one story smoothly to the next and create new and captivating angles to keep their audience engaged.
It's easy to criticise it when it goes wrong but it sounds like a hell of a job to continuously come up with fresh and exciting storylines. However when something doesn't land, as happens not infrequently, it's better to perhaps just move on entirely. As such, there are a lot of wrestling storylines that just don't go anywhere.
The problem with this of course that diehard wrestling fans don't forget. It doesn't matter if a feud was good or bad, audiences can't help but wonder what could've been if a story had reached an actual conclusion instead of just disappearing in a puff of smoke.
10. The Black Liquid
Supernatural wrestling can get away with a lot of truly nonsensical stuff for the very same reason that horror films can. It asks you to suspend your disbelief further than you may well have already done, surrendering to the idea that there are things we may not truly understand. And, in fact, we may not want to for the sake of entertainment. After all, not knowing is half of the chills.
As part of the never-ending 2020/2021 feud between Randy Orton and the Firefly Funhouse, the Viper found himself constantly harassed and tormented by Alexa "I'm 29 but dressed like a small child" Bliss. One of these, in March 2021, saw your standard fare of turnbuckle pyro to frighten Orton, but was followed by the odd sight of him falling to his knees vomiting a strange black liquid. Calls of "possession" courtesy of the then-MIA Fiend were heard from the portion of the fanbase who try to make any sense of supernatural wrestling.
But at WrestleMania 37 it was firmly established that the black liquid was the domain of Alexa Bliss. As the match between Orton and the Fiend drew to a close, Bliss appeared from inside the "box-like structure" at ringside. Gone was her usual brightly-coloured overalls, instead Bliss sat cross-legged in gothic wear, a crown around her head covering her in the mysterious black secretion.
This moment led to Bliss splitting solo from Wyatt, but the black liquid - where it came from and what it represented - was never mentioned again. Which is weird, as the ability to force your opponents to choke on supernatural goo seems like quite a handy talent in a wrestling ring. Oh well!